Doors 300 – Doors of Buxton (part IV), April 2024
This is the last post from my trip to Buxton, and we say farewell to this beautiful Derbyshire town with a set of doors that includes the famous Buxton Opera House, an outstanding building and vibrant concert venue, that punches well above its weight in terms of its location, probably reflecting a more prosperous period when the wealthy would flock to the spa town.
Although this is the last post from Buxton, the good news is that I have doors lined up from Copenhagen, Marrakesh, Rochester and from a trip to Godalming on Tuesday this week amongst many other folders of doors ready for posting. In fact, my archive is growing faster than I am able to post… something to keep me going at least. I hope you enjoy this swan song from Buxton:
On this last building, here is a snippet from Wikipedia with some really interesting facts about the place:
The Devonshire Dome building (previously known as the Devonshire Royal Hospital) is a Grade II* listed 18th-century former stable block in Buxton, Derbyshire. It was built by John Carr of York and extended by architect Robert Rippon Duke, who added what was then the world’s largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft). It is now the site of the Buxton Campus of the University of Derby.
That’s it for this week. I now have to consider what doors to bring to the party next time. Have a happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
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